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“I get enthused about candidates and I want them to be smart enough to win,” Scarborough continued. “McDaniel wasn’t smart enough to win. You’re in a stupid race and need to stop whining about being too stupid to expand his base.”

Scarborough’s comments come after McDaniel lost the Mississippi runoff against Cochran on Tuesday. Mississippi has an open runoff system which allows Democrats to vote in the GOP contest and many observers are crediting Cochran’s win to his being able to draw African-American voters to the polls.

“I can tell you if these people were my children, I would be laughing at them calling them the biggest whiners,” Scarborough said of the McDaniel campaign. “‘They cheated!’ No, they didn’t cheat. They followed the rules, they followed the law. You lost.”